Youtube Launches Game Streaming Service (Photo : Reuters )
With just a few days to the big event E3 2015, Google's YouTube has announced that it is all set to launch a dedicated website as well as app for the video game fans to find gaming videos and live streams.
YouTube Gaming will have a United States release this summer, with a Britain launch following soon after.
"YouTube Gaming is built to be all about your favorite games and gamers, with more videos than anywhere else," Product Manager Alan Joyce wrote in a blog, adding that gamers can find the best videos and live streams of more than 25,000 games starting from "Asteroids" to "Zelda."
Specific game publishers and personalities will also have separate dedicated channels in YouTube Gaming, with featured individual pages. The company said that a preview of the new YouTube offering will be showcased at the E3, 2015. YouTube has also come up with a new app specifically created for kids to watch videos, LiveMint reported.
YouTube Gaming currently supports up to 60 frames per second streaming and will have an improved live service, launched in the next few weeks to make it even simpler to broadcast competitive gaming, according to Google.
This move from the online video giant is reportedly to compete with Amazon with its Twitch service in particular.
Amazon acquired Twitch, the gaming-centric streaming video site, for over $1 billion, successfully beating YouTube in the preliminary deal, back in 2014. Twitch, just in the last three years, has grown to have more than 100 million users watching around 1.5 million broadcasters per month.
